Sunday, November 18, 2018

For Keeps is open Thursdays through Sundays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m at
171 Auburn Avenue. This weekend, on November 17, they are open 9 a.m.-2
p.m. and closed Sunday the 18th. Follow their Instagram for updates.Rosa Duffy designed the shop and reading room to be a place for people to interact with history that is often overlooked, says Jewel Wicker, entertainment reporter.

Inside For KeepsPhoto: courtesy of Rosa Duffy

There is, perhaps, no street in Atlanta more fitting than Auburn Avenue to house For Keeps bookstore.Located in the historically black Sweet Auburn District, Rosa Duffy,
28, has opened a place she hopes will invite everyone, but especially
black people, to come in and stay awhile. Inside the space, located at
171 Auburn Avenue, Duffy adjusts the books on display, wearing a caramel
turtleneck, wide-legged blue jeans, and patent leather boots. A Kanga
cloth from Tanzania that reads “Hongera Barack Obama,” (Swahili for
“congratulations”) with a monochrome photo of the former president,
hangs on display on one wall. Duffy’s own prints, sourced from old
magazines and newspapers, including the Atlanta Daily World, are on
display on the opposite wall.

For Keeps Bookstore is more than a place for visitors to purchase rare
and classic black books. Duffy designed it to also be a reading room
where people can stop in and interact with history that is often
overlooked or placed in the bottom of the dollar bins at other
bookstores.

Although the space has only been open for about a week, Rosa Duffy’s
desire to open a bookstore was sparked over a decade ago by her
introduction to Soulbook, a black periodical published in the 1960s and
’70s. She first encountered copies in her father’s personal literature
collection and, around the age of 18, she began using scans of them for
her art. (Duffy, who recently worked for Atlanta artist Radcliffe
Bailey, mostly works with sculpture and paper.)...

Duffy says she’s hoping For Keeps will help dispel the myth that black people aren’t interested in learning about their history.“The reality is, [some of] this stuff is in other spaces,” she says.
“Some of the books that I have out here right now are in an exhibit at
Emory [University], but it’s not inviting. It’s an atmosphere where you
feel like you have to be a certain type of person to go in there and
look at stuff.”Read more... Source: Atlanta Magazine

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